Security is Complex, Patching with Microsoft® System Center Shouldn't Be

System Center Configuration Manager is the solution of choice for managing today's enterprise environments. But what’s an administrator to do when a security audit includes vulnerabilities in non-Microsoft applications?

Introducing the only enterprise-class 3rd party patching solution designed exclusively for System Center environments that require operationally efficient and reliable security and compliance patching solutions.

Join us for an in-depth demonstration of practical methods to improve the patch process for your most targeted 3rd party desktop applications, reduce the time you spend building updates, and improve audit readiness in your Windows environment—through our newly released Lumension® Patch Manager DeskTop plug-in.

Key capabilities include:
Integrated plug-in with automated content subscription and synchronized scheduling—all within the familiar SCCM console but without need for manual SCUP input
Ensures systems are correctly patched the first time though Patent-pending Patch-Smart™ technology
Enterprise-class content which delivers in-depth vulnerability information and supports both enterprise and consumer versions of the most widely adopted, highly targeted applications

With the exponential growth and sophistication of malware today, the security industry can no longer afford to ‘bury its head in the sand’. The bottom line is that traditional endpoint security protection has now become ineffective due to the sheer volume, quality, and complexity of malware. New threats have stretched the capabilities of "fat client" security architectures to the limit, making it impractical to keep endpoints updated with signatures for all the new viruses.
Please join us for a live demonstration of Webroot SecureAnywhere® Business – Endpoint Protection.

After so many massive data breaches in 2014, it’s small wonder that data protection is such a hot topic today. The fourth annual Data Protection Maturity Trends report delves into the issues and concerns facing IT security teams, how effective their data protection efforts have been to date, and their plans for 2015 and beyond.

Remember the 1960s television program, “The 21st century,” with Walter Cronkite? The show ran from 1967 to 1970, and some people have not been satisfied with the rate of change in the last 40 years, lamenting that Cronkite and other futurists promised flying cars by 2010. Has the pace of innovation in the data center industry slowed to Flying Car pace?

With Intel releasing 3 or 4 generations of processors per year, and software defined everything changing the way we view IT architecture and infrastructure on a daily basis, it seems hard to wait for innovations that have been discussed for a long time data center industry.

In this webinar, we will look at some of the innovations that have been discussed over the last 10 years, and see where they are in terms of implementation. Some of the topics include:

Data center energy efficiency is being attacked from numerous directions, including power distribution innovations, the creation of hardware better suited to customer applications (to drive better IT utilization), co-designing data centers with IT solutions, and cooling system innovations.

With respect to cooling systems, the widely-recognized Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) from The Green Grid (TGG), which is a direct measure of data center energy efficiency, has been used to great effect to continuously drive down “traditional” air-cooled data center PUEs. In the high performance computing (HPC) space, where 40 kW+ rack power densities are commonplace, more aggressive cooling technologies such as liquid-cooling, are seeing rapid adoption. There is also increasing evidence that liquid-cooling is making its way into non-HPC data centers. The presentation will cover such topics as:

· Data center energy efficiency trends
· An overview of liquid-cooling technologies
· The role that liquid-cooled IT is playing in driving improved energy efficiency – towards a PUE of 1.1
· The challenges of implementing liquid-cooling in the IT and data centers

The goal is to help demystify liquid-cooling. Finally, The Green Grid’s recently announced Liquid-Cooling Work Group will be described.

Join us for this informative 60 minute roundtable as we discuss how flash is helping data centers become faster and far more efficient. This panel follows our previous all-flash panel with a whole new round of all-flash storage vendors. Some of the questions we'll be asking include: Is all-flash suitable for all workloads or is a hybrid approach enough? Is a scale-out flash approach superior? Can all-flash be as cost-effective as spinning disk?

The overall industry has over provisioned infrastructure for years – we are now optimizing what we have and what we need by thinking ‘lean’.

This seminar is geared towards a three step program on how to drive up utilization of existing infrastructure and ensuring a lean supply chain by:

1) Identifying what you have already
2) Ensuring you are both “allocated” and “utilized”
3) Focusing on your support as a “commodty”

Apply this to all classes of infrastructure and you can drive down your TCO >20%and sometimes up to 40%…Geared towards web-scale infrastructure managers, planners, and supply chain from any and all companies engaged in managing large scale internet infrastructure.

Progressive CIO's want out of the data center market, at least data centers as we have known them for the past few decades. The CIO's vision is for an autonomous data center; a data center that operates without the constant supervision of storage, network, database and exchange administrators. A data center that virtually runs itself; automatically adjusting compute, networking and storage to adapt to the changing demands of the applications and services critical to the success of the business.

So how do large enterprises, burdened with security, compliance, application interdependency, and legacy architectures, begin building towards an autonomous data center? How does the CIO begin thinking strategically about the evolution of the data center and understand the building blocks that will be needed to one day achieve this vision?

In this webinar, we'll begin the journey by defining the autonomous data center, understanding the strategy required for realizing this vision, and exploring the ultimate impact to IT.

International Green IT Week is an initiative hosted by FFITS.ORG from 1st-7th June, which aims to:
Motivate individuals and businesses to take action
Support each other locally, regionally and globally in Green IT innovation
Share experiences and learnings